{"id":23596,"date":"2011-05-26T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23596"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:27:27","slug":"remembered-with-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23596","title":{"rendered":"Willie Glenn \u201cBill\u201d Floyd; Remembered with Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet recently deceased Staff Sgt. Willie Glenn \u201cBill\u201d Floyd. His obituary in the Times and Democrat<\/a> was paid for by his family and recounts his military career;<\/p>\n

He enlisted in the United States Army, where he served two terms in Vietnam. He was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, the Green Berets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, everyone knows that the 82d Airborne Division is known as “The Green Berets”.<\/p>\n

Upon completion of his first tour of Vietnam, he attended Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College for criminal justice, after which he re-enlisted in the Army and served his second term in Vietnam. He received 27 medals and ribbons: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier\u2019s Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Purple Heart, U.S. Nonmilitary Decorations, Good Conduct Medal, Service Medals (NDSM, AFEM, HSM, etc. in order earned), Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, NCO Professional Development, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Foreign Military Decorations and Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Medal.<\/p>\n

After retiring from the Army after 21 years, he returned to Orangeburg to his family and was employed by Roper as a security officer, Ethyl Chemical Plant as a maintenance worker, Orangeburg County Detention Center as a correctional officer and Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College as a maintenance worker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how many staff sergeants with those decorations made it to 21 years. And what is a “U.S. Nonmilitary Decorations” and a “Foreign Military Decorations and Service Medal”. According to our buddy, Doug Sterner, Willie Glen doesn’t appear in any database as receiving any of those awards.<\/p>\n

In the picture, there’s no flash behind the SF device on his beret, I don’t recognize the branch on his collar or the flash behind his jump wings, but it doesn’t look like something that belongs in SF. If he was assigned to a support unit in the Special Forces, by the date, judging by his uniform (the poplin shirt), he should have had a “candy stripe” on the beret.<\/p>\n

So, our buddy, Doug Sterner, called the newspaper and told them that they published a phony bio. According to Doug, they were “downright rude” about it all, telling him that the family paid for the obituary and there would be no retraction.<\/p>\n

Nice journalistic integrity, there, bud. As long as someone ponies up the right amount of cash, they’ll print anything true or not. I guess we know how Alvin Greene won his party’s nomination in SC in the last election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet recently deceased Staff Sgt. Willie Glenn \u201cBill\u201d Floyd. His obituary in the Times and Democrat … Willie Glenn \u201cBill\u201d Floyd; Remembered with Stolen Valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}